Academic Writing is tough

Torrance, Thomas, Robinson (1994: 379) claimed:

Academic writing is difficult. It requires a complex combination of generating ideas, selecting the ideas that are appropriate to the writing task, translating these into text and polishing the text to produce a presentable document.  In doing this the writer has to attend not only to his or her own thoughts, but also to the content and style conventions of the community for whom the piece is being written.

Torrance, M., Thomas, G. V. and Robinson, E. J. (1994). The writing strategies of graduate research students in the Social Sciences. Higher Education, 27(3), 379.